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PowerCLI Essentials

You're reading from PowerCLI Essentials Simplify and automate server administration tasks with PowerCLI

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785881770

Length 194 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

PowerCLI

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Author (1):

Chris Halverson

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Essential Administration with PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER

2. Comparing Point and Click Administration to PowerCLI and Scripting

3. Enhancing the Scripting Experience

4. Windows Administration within VMware Administration

5. Workflows and vRealize Orchestrator

6. Running Workflows with Other VMware Products

Index

Where do we find scripts and snippets that are safe to run?

There are, literally, hundreds of sites, blogs, and developer sites that contain PoSH code and PowerCLI optimized scripts. This book is not going to list every single place to start; however, it is going to list key ways to validate the code and some places to start.

VMware communities

The VMware communities are a great place to start. Where not all code is good, there are key individuals that stand out as contributors of merit. LucD, Alan Renouf, RvdNieuwendijk, and others have built an impressive list of appropriate scripts for various tasks. Typical searches in a favorite search engine, <Script purpose> (site: https://communities.vmware.com), should find any number of examples of scripts to supply syntax and methods to run.

VMware blogs

Heading to https://blogs.vmware.com/powercli will lead you to many interesting articles about PowerCLI and different ways to program interesting areas of the utility. All the articles are written...

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Authors (1)

Halverson

Halverson

Chris Halverson is a senior consultant for VMware in the Professional Services Organization in Canada. He specializes in the full Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) stack, architecting, designing, and deploying customer solutions. He has been active in the VMware community as a VMUG leader for the past 4 years and prides himself as an active participant in the local IT market over the past 17 years. Previous roles have allowed him to work on enterprise architecture bringing process and rigor to the administration aspect of the position and automation that made the job smarter. There is even an aspect where "I replaced myself with a small script" has been heard from him when discussing the former roles. When Chris is not working on building the virtual community, he shares his time and energy with his tremendous wife, three boys, and one princess. Excited to spend time watching and helping them figure out life for themselves, he encourages them in their sports, through their schooling, and through their own walk of faith. Over the past few years, Chris has also been able to achieve a dream as a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, crossing off one of those bucket list items. Chris has also acted as a book reviewer.

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